Segurança do paciente em unidades de terapia intensiva: ambiente das práticas profissionais de enfermagem e satisfação profissional na ocorrência de eventos adversos

Evaluation of patient safety culture in the pediatric intensive therapy unit in a public hospital / Avaliação da cultura de segurança do paciente em unidade de terapia intensiva pediátrica em hospital público

“…Patient safety has been a major concern for health care institutions around the world, especially since the publication of the report "To err is human: building a safer health system", prepared in 1999 by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM), which drew attention for associating welfare errors with a high risk of death. 1 In this context, since 2013, the National Program for Patient Safety (NPPS) instituted by the Ministry of Health (MH) has had the role of contributing to the qualification of health care. One of the initiatives of the NPPS focused on safety culture, present in the DRC no.…”

“…9-10 Thus, assessing the safety culture may allow the detection of dangerous situations and errors present in pediatric intensive care units and it is necessary since these sectors are more prone to errors, since they are more serious patients, subject to imminent risk of death, besides complex, uninterrupted care and immediate decisions. 1,11…”